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From: rberlin@birdland.sun.com (Rich Berlin)
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Subject: Re: PostScript and banding
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Date: 28 Nov 90 00:47:19 GMT
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In-reply-to: chaim@taux01.nsc.com's message of 27 Nov 90 15:05:55 GMT

> Strangely enough, I have never heard of banded PostScript. Why? What are
> the technological difficulties in banding a PostScript display-list? Are
> there unsolved algorithmic challanges? Why has it never been attempted?

Banding is the rendering method of choice in high-resolution
phototypesetters.  It's been used in PostScript rips for some time; if
you look in the redbook on page 201, you'll see a definition of the
`renderbands' operator....

-- Rich